[python-win32] makepy.py "Some COM library"

[Mark Hammond]

Does something like `python -c "from win32com.client.gencache import 
EnsureDispatch; EnsureDispatch('ADODB.Connection.6.0');` work? That 
should generate directly into the expected output directory.

Mark

On 2023-05-30 1:44 p.m., Steven Manross wrote:
>
> Command I ran:
>
> C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client>python makepy.py 
> "ADODB.Connection.6.0"
>
> Output:
>
> Generating to 
> C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Temp\13\gen_py\3.11\B691E011-1797-432E-907A-4D8C69339129x0x6x1.py
>
> Building definitions from type library...
>
> Generating...
>
> Importing module
>
> ---
>
> I am running the command above, and if I do this, my Classic ASP does 
> not see the resulting B691E011-1797-432E-907A-4D8C69339129x0x6x1.py 
> file because it saved the file in the user temp directory as opposed 
> to in the site-packages directory structure.
>
>   * When I installed Python, I told it to install the application for
>     “All Users” (Default Directory = C:\Program Files\Python311 -- but
>     I removed the Program Files portion for the installation)
>
> Is there some way to make it save the file in the correct place for 
> the python installation from the command line so I don’t have to move 
> the files it generates?
>
> Keep in mind that the files it generates seems to live in a 3.11 
> directory, but python seems to want it in:
>
> C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\B691E011-1797-432E-907A-4D8C69339129x0x6x1.py
>
> C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\dicts.dat
>
> C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\__init__.py
>
> I saw the -o parameter in the makepy.py script but if I use that, it 
> doesn’t seem to build the dicts.dat or __init__.py files – which 
> already exist (is that a problem?).
>
> Please and thank you for any comments,
>
> Steven
>
>
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